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Last updated: 21-11-2008 07:00:01 GMT

This page is automatically updated from LabourStart's database. At the moment, some of the details about our correspondents are incomplete, but we are constantly working to keep these up to date and accurate.

  1. Rachid Boussairi: Rachid works for the Union Marocaine du Travail/ Federation Nationale des Travailleurs de l'Energie in Morocco. [recent stories] [send message]
  2. Joseph Welsh: Joe is a delegate to the New York City Central Labor Council, a member of UA Lu638 Steamfitters, and is a co-administrator of Union Review. [recent stories] [send message]
  3. Abdullah Muhsin: Abdullahis a representative of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  4. Rochelle Wong: Rochelle is the Online Communications Officer for the ACTU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  5. Angie Croft: Formerly LabourStart correspondent in New Zealand, Angie now has a two year teaching contract on the island of Mauke in the Cook Islands. [recent stories] [send message]
  6. Anita Gardner: Anita is Communications Officer at the International Metalworkers Federation, based in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  7. Amri Joyner: Amri is Assistant Director, Collective Bargaining at the UFCW in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  8. Sebastián Orozco: Sebastián is a journalist working for the Escuela Nacional Sindical (Or Unionized National School) in Medellín, Colombia. [recent stories] [send message]
  9. Anne Speed: Anne is campaigns organiser for SIPTU in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  10. Ajay kumar Rai: Ajay is the the president of the Nepal Transport workers union and a Board member of the ITF Asia Pacific region. [recent stories] [send message]
  11. Alan Maki: Alan is Director of Organizing for the Red Lake Casino, Hotel, and Restaurant Employees' Union Organizing Committee, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  12. Alan Peto: Alan is our Las Vegas correspondent. He is a freelance journalist and runs the website http://www.walmartworkerslv.com which is the mainstay website for Wal-Mart workers in Las Vegas who are organizing for the UFCW. [recent stories] [send message]
  13. Alex Gordon: Alex Gordon is an elected official of the RMT union in Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  14. Alex McCallum: Alex is Assistant Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia - Southern States Branch and is based in Melbourne. Responsible for monthly eTUonline newsletter, ETU website and quarterly ETU News. [recent stories] [send message]
  15. Alison Paul: Alison works for the U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project, which is a independent non-profit that works to support the labor movements in Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Central America. [recent stories] [send message]
  16. Jurgo Alkasaro: Jurgo is based in Spain, a member of the CGT and Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda. [recent stories] [send message]
  17. Antony McMullen: Antony works as a Social Justice Officer for the Uniting Church in Australia, and is a member of Union Solidarity and the ASU. [recent stories] [send message]
  18. Amin Kazemi: Amin is the International Organiser of Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network (IWSN) and the European representative of Workers' Action Committee (Iran). [recent stories] [send message]
  19. Ana Cernov: Ana works for Instituto Observatório Social, a NGO created by the CUT (biggest Brazilian Central Union), that concentrates in developing research and making its results public, so that union leaders can have accurate information to plan action and also to negotiate with companies. [recent stories] [send message]
  20. Ana Cosel: Ana will post Romanian labour news to LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  21. Albert Narvaez: Albert is a Puerto Rican trade unionist, active in Hermandad Independiente De Empleados Telefónicos. [recent stories] [send message]
  22. Anders Eriksson: Anders, a member of the Swedish Teachers Union, lives in Uppsala. [recent stories] [send message]
  23. Andrew Casey: LabourStart Senior Correspondent in Australia, covering the Asia/Pacific region. [recent stories] [send message]
  24. Andrew Jones: Andrew is the national web strategist for the LHMU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  25. Andy Neufeld: Communications consultant working for UFCW Local 1518, one of the largest unions in British Columbia with 26,000 members in both the private and public sectors (approximately 3500 Health Care workers) [recent stories] [send message]
  26. Andy Funnell: Andy is a recent recruit and looks after the French pages. He was born in Britain in 1955 and has lived in France since the age of 20. A union activist in the hospitality sector with the CFDT since 1979, he believes unions must get over their rivalry (in France, there are five main unions) and get on with tackling the important issues stemming mainly from globalisation. [recent stories] [send message]
  27. Anita Fors: Anita works as a journalist at Sekomagasinet, the Journal of the Swedish Union for Service and Communication. SEKO has about 120,000 members and is part of the Swedish LO. [recent stories] [send message]
  28. Anne Mette Ødegård: Anne Mette is a LabourStart correspondent in Norway. [recent stories] [send message]
  29. Antony Dugdale: Antony Dugdale is the research analyst for H.E.R.E. Local 34, the union of clerical and technical workers at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, CT. [recent stories] [send message]
  30. Anthony Main: Anthony is a metal worker by trade and an active unionist, a member of the AMWU. He also helps produce a radio program on Melbourne's 3CR (community radio) called 'On the picket Line'. [recent stories] [send message]
  31. Antonia Mau Tempo: Antonia is a temp worker and railway electrician in Germany. [recent stories] [send message]
  32. Antonio Carlos Castro: Antonio is based in Brazil and is in charge of the website for ORIT the Americas regional organization of the ICFTU. [recent stories] [send message]
  33. Anthony Hiron: [recent stories] [send message]
  34. arabictest: [recent stories]
  35. Michael: Arbejderen is a Danish left-wing daily newspaper. [recent stories] [send message]
  36. Arieh Lebowitz: Works as Communications Director and Program Associate of the New York-based Jewish Labor Committee. [recent stories] [send message]
  37. Alison Rose: Alison is Senior Industrial Officer for APESMA, an Australian union representing workers who include engineers, scientists and IT professionals. [recent stories] [send message]
  38. Asaf Adiv: Asaf is one of LabourStart's correspondents in Israel. [recent stories] [send message]
  39. Ashok Subron: Ashok is a LabourStart correspondent in Mauritius. [recent stories] [send message]
  40. Atosha McCaw: Atosha is Campaigns and Communications Officer for the National Tertiary Education Union Victorian Division, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  41. Atte Houtsma: Atte is a member of abvaKabo in the Netherlands, active as a shop steward and an activist in the Socialist Party. [recent stories] [send message]
  42. Averlon Toussaint: Averlon works in the Information Unit of the ILO Subregional office for the Caribbean, in Trinidad. [recent stories] [send message]
  43. Burcu Ayan: Burcu is International Relations Coordinator for the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers' Trade Union of Turkey. [recent stories] [send message]
  44. Ayten: A member of KESK, Ayten will be helping to maintain our Turkish edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  45. Hassan Barghouthi: Hassan Barghouthi is the General Director of the Democracy and Workers Rights Center (CWRC) in Ramallah, Palestine. [recent stories] [send message]
  46. Barry Kennedy: Barry is a Regional Representative for CAW-Canada, National Council 4000. [recent stories] [send message]
  47. Yannick Etienne: LabourStart correspondent in Haiti. [recent stories] [send message]
  48. Brian Dominick: Brian is an editor at The NewStandard which regularly covers issues regarding labor, health care, safety, etc in a "hard news" format from an explicitly progressive, pro-worker perspective. [recent stories] [send message]
  49. Ben Bellamy: Ben is assistant national organiser for Connect, "the union for professionals in communications", in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  50. Ben Davis: Ben is Mexico Country Program Director for the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. [recent stories] [send message]
  51. Ben Haynes: Ben is president of Local 6720 of the United Steel Workers of America, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  52. Ben Kempink: Ben is the webmaster of FNV Spoor, the Dutch FNV website with information about the Dutch railways. [recent stories] [send message]
  53. Weronika Szydlowska: Weronika is one of our correspondents in Warsaw, Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  54. Bev Pausche: Bev Pausche is a Communications Assistant for the BC Federation of Labour in British Columbia, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  55. Blaise Farina: [recent stories] [send message]
  56. Bernard Harbor: Bernard is press officer for Public Services International (PSI). PSI is the global federation of public service unions. Its 650 affiliates have over 20 million members in over 150 countries. [recent stories] [send message]
  57. Brian Forbes: Brian is National Coordinator - Organising, Recruitment and Campaigns for Mandate in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  58. Greg Anderson: Greg is a member of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). [recent stories] [send message]
  59. Biju Longhinos: Biju is a lecturer in Geology at University College, Trivandrum, India, and also a permanent member in the World Federation of Teachers Union (FISE). [recent stories] [send message]
  60. Bill Reno: Bill is a union communications consultant in Ontario, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  61. Bismo Sanyoto: Bismo is a member of the FKUI in Indonesia. [recent stories] [send message]
  62. Blazej Sadowski: [recent stories] [send message]
  63. Brigid Marasco: Brigid is Communications Officer for the ASU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  64. Bernadette Moloney: Bernadette Moloney is the National Publicity Officer of the CFMEU Construction Division in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  65. Bob Beck: [recent stories] [send message]
  66. Bob Chandler: Bob, a member of OPEIU Local 343, is a LabourStart correspondent in Toronto. [recent stories] [send message]
  67. Bob Gallie: Bob is a member of the Labor Beat board and producer for 20 years. He is also the Labor Beat web site developer. [recent stories] [send message]
  68. Alexander Bobilev: Alexander works for iJET Travel Intelligence, and will be covering industrial disputes in the travel sector for LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  69. Robert P. Kolb: A member SMWIA Local 73, has set up and administers a wide number of independent labour websites in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  70. Bob Ramsay: Bob Ramsay works for the Building and Wood Workers' International (formerly the IFBWW). [recent stories] [send message]
  71. Khalil Bohazza: Khalil is a journalist based in Bahrain. [recent stories] [send message]
  72. Bojan Stanislavski: Bojan is a vice-chief-editor of the Polish trade-union magazine "New Popular Weekly" which is the only ``nation-wide trade union magazine in the country. [recent stories] [send message]
  73. Bernard Pollack: Bernie works for the AFL-CIO Voice @ Work Campaign in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  74. Karina Brocks: Karina is a journalist and works for a Venezuelan union called Justicia Obrera. [recent stories] [send message]
  75. Haines Brown: Haines will be helping LabourStart cover African labour news. He is a retired history teacher who now does some computer related teaching, such as Java, and some web publishing. One of his sites is a collection of some 3-4,000 documents in primarily contemporary world history, in which he attempt a working-class perspective (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives). He co-edits an African studies newsletter and is a member of AFT A & R and AFSCME retirees unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  76. Brian Synnott: Brian works for the EPSU -- the European Federation of Public Service Unions, based in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  77. Acharya Buddhi Ram: Buddhi works for the Nepalese national trade union center, GEFONT, and is involved with the websites of GEFONT and Labour Nepal. [recent stories] [send message]
  78. Andrew Burchardt: Andrew is lecturer who took early retirement (and is now teaching more hours than before!). Before retirement he taught for about 25 years at Ruskin College, which is (or was) a trade union-oriented College. His subjects were Industrial and Labour Economics, and (more recently)effective internet searching. [recent stories] [send message]
  79. Charles-Antoine Bachand: Charles-Antoine is a LabourStart correspondent in Quebec. [recent stories] [send message]
  80. Carolyn Jones: Carolyn is Director of the Institute of Employment Rights, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  81. Charles Arthur: Writer and researcher specialising in the politics and economics of Haiti as well as covering other Caribbean countries for Latinamerica Press amongst others. He is also part-time director of the activist Haiti Support Group based in London, UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  82. Steve Balayewich: Steve works at Hitachi Truck in Guelph, Ontario is currently the Sergeant-at-Arms, Political Action representative and Guelph and District Labour Council delegate for his local union (CAW local 1917). [recent stories] [send message]
  83. Cindi Foreman: Cindi is a member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  84. Craig Griffiths: Craig does Strategic Media and Communications for the Community and Public Sector Union, is Marketing Resource Consultant for the Australian Nursing Federation and is also a freelance writer/designer with a BA in Sociology and Journalism. He lives in Tasmania. [recent stories] [send message]
  85. Rosemari Södergren: Rosemari is responsible for the webc ommunication for LO - the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. [recent stories] [send message]
  86. Charity Ryerson: Charity is program coordinator for US Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP), a nonprofit organization that supports workers who are organizing in Latin America. [recent stories] [send message]
  87. Charley Lewis: Charley Lewis is a former teacher, former computer programmer, current South African Communist Party activist, and formerly headed the COSATU Information Technology Unit. [recent stories] [send message]
  88. Christine Hayvice: Works full time for CAW Local 2002 doing communications, based in Vancouver. We are the Airline Division of the CAW, a national local representing 13000 members of the Canadian Auto Workers Union - the third largest local in the union. [recent stories] [send message]
  89. Cheri Taylor: Cheri is Research Officer at the United Firefighters Union of Queensland, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  90. Chinyong Chong: Vice President of Asian Pacific Caucus of Western Region, SEIU, AFL-CIO. Member of SEIU local 660. [recent stories] [send message]
  91. Christian Karl: Active since 2003 in the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions ETU-MB, organizing international solidarity for the resistance of migrant workers in South Korea. [recent stories] [send message]
  92. Christine Revkin: Christine works as webmaster for UNI Global Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  93. Cindy McCallum Miller: Cindy is National Director of the Prairie Region for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  94. Chris Snyder: Chris is a business agent for IUOE Local 3, in Oakland, California. [recent stories] [send message]
  95. Carolyn Jacobson: Carolyn is the Outreach Coordinator for Working Woimen ROCC! (Reaching Out against Cervical Cancer) at the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), in Washington, D.C. For more information about this project, visit the website. [recent stories] [send message]
  96. Caroline Jacobsson: Caroline is Information and Communications officer at the European Metalworkers Federation in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  97. Claus Hall: Claus is active in the Danish LO youth. [recent stories] [send message]
  98. David Climenhaga: David is union rep, communications, for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (58,000 members). He writes frequently about AUPE and on other topics of interest to trade unionists. [recent stories] [send message]
  99. Diana Beaumont: Diana is an intern at the Asia Monitor Resource Centre in Hong Kong, and co-ordinator of China Labor News Translations (CLNT). [recent stories] [send message]
  100. Katherine Stecher: Katherine works for the Campaign for Labor Rights in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  101. Kitty Sun: Kitty works for China Labor Watch, a non-profit organization that fights for the rights of Chinese workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  102. Coen Helderman: Coen is a policy advisor for Abvakabo FNV in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  103. Colin Jones: Colin is a shop steward for Unison, Britain's largest public sector union. [recent stories] [send message]
  104. Philippe Matzkowski: Le Collectif LBO est la première association qui a porté dans le débat public la question de la place et du rôle des fonds d'investissement dans l'économie. [recent stories] [send message]
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  106. Patrick Craven: Patrick works for COSATU in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  107. Stephen Crockett: Stephen co-hosts Democratic Talk Radio and writes the Democratic Voice column. He is a member of the National Writers Union (United Auto Workers local 1981). [recent stories] [send message]
  108. Michael B. Ganino, Jr: Mike is a local union president for the postal workers union in the USA (APWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  109. Annie Watson: Annie Watson is the director of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council. [recent stories] [send message]
  110. Center for Trade Union and Workers Services: The Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS) is an Egyptian non-governmental organization established in March 1990 by some labor leaders and activists guided by their experience in the Egyptian labor movement. They vowed to meet the urgent need to form an independent organization that advances and supports the needs of workers in a democratic manner, provide direct support and services to the workers and fill the void created by the "official" trade union organization which failed to achieve its fundamental obligations. [recent stories] [send message]
  111. Damian Sat³awa: Damian is secretary of the editorial board of the New Popular Weekly, in Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  112. Daniel Crute: Daniel is a LabourStart correspondent based in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  113. Daniel Byron: Daniel is a student and LHMU member in Australia. His blog can be found at http://www.danleyrant.blogspot.com/. [recent stories] [send message]
  114. Dan Cork: Dan serves as Program Officer for the Gulf States and Yemen at the Solidarity Center, an allied organization of the AFL-CIO. [recent stories] [send message]
  115. Dave Anderson: Dave is President, AFSCME Local 3592 and Recording Secretary for AFSCME Council 76, in Colorado. [recent stories] [send message]
  116. Dave Gilbert: Dave is an Australian working as a teacher in Umpiem Refugee Camp in Thailand, and is also involved in Indymedia Burma. "Because everyone from Burma here is illegal," he says, "there are no official trade unions. However there is a lot of activism by illegal migrant workers and there are migrant worker organisations and strikes and other actions." [recent stories] [send message]
  117. Dave Smith: Dave Smith is Director of Communications, National Union of Government and Federated Workers of Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  118. Dave Thompson: Dave is the Regional Organizer for the Public Service Alliance of Canada based in Yellowknife. His territory is the Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. [recent stories] [send message]
  119. David Braniff-Herbert: David is National Organiser for Youth and Students at Unite, Britain's largest union. [recent stories] [send message]
  120. David Shih: David is program coordinator for China Labor Watch. [recent stories] [send message]
  121. David Fahlen: [recent stories] [send message]
  122. David Hollis: Dave is the founder of LabourNet Germany. [recent stories] [send message]
  123. David Koff: David, a member of HERE, is working on the national mobilization for immigrant and worker rights, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. This is an international labor and civil rights issue and is already receiving widespread attention in labor, religious, ethnic, and mainstream media. More information is available at www.iwfr.org [recent stories] [send message]
  124. David Shai: David is a member of Kibbutz Ein Dor and works in its wire and cable factory. [recent stories] [send message]
  125. David Stephens: David works as for the Australian Federation of Air Pilots as``Senior Industrial Officer and Deputy Editor of the union journal, "Air Pilot". He has served as a delegate and union official for some 25 years. [recent stories] [send message]
  126. Derek Blackadder: LabourStart's senior correspondent in Canada, Derek is a National Representative in CUPE's Peterborough (Ontario) office. [recent stories] [send message]
  127. Daniel Blackburn: [recent stories] [send message]
  128. Dennis Britton: Dennis is the LabourStart correspondent in the Bahamas. [recent stories] [send message]
  129. Vallan Scott Anundson: Vallan is a delegate and founding member of the Washington DC branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). [recent stories] [send message]
  130. Don Osachoff: [recent stories] [send message]
  131. Dee Luxford: Dee is a branch organiser, Sussex Taxes, for the PCS union in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  132. David Empey: David is President of the University of Western Ontario Staff Association, an independent union which represents 1050 administrative and technical staff. [recent stories] [send message]
  133. Denis B.: Denis is an IT engineer working in a national union office in Russia; he also runs this site - Profsoyz. [recent stories] [send message]
  134. Dennis Rock: Dennis has been a member of the Machinists Union (IAMAW) for 26 years and is a a Committeeman at the shop he works at. He is also the editor of the Local Lodge's newsletter, "The Fighting Machinists", Communicator for the Local, and Recording Secretary. His Local Lodge 1227 is located in Valparaiso, Indiana which is in District 90 of the Midwest Territories. [recent stories] [send message]
  135. Robert Deschambault: Robert works as an advisor to the CSN in Quebec. [recent stories] [send message]
  136. Steve Diamond: Steve writes: "Nearly thirty years experience in the labor movement, beginning with my first union card (UFCW) at age 14. Grandparents were in the SF General Strike. Currently study and teach international labor rights, international economy and corporate law. Frequently advise labor unions on these issues." [recent stories] [send message]
  137. Hsin-Hsing Chen: Chen is a long-time participant in Taiwan's labour movement and solidarity campaigns with workers in other countries. Currently he is an associate professor of labour studies at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies at Shih-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. [recent stories] [send message]
  138. Trung Doan: Trung Doan is General Secretary of the Committee to Protect``Vietnamese Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  139. Don Polly: Don is a lifelong trade unionist, a semi-retired journalist, who has been writing features, and commissioned pieces for the New Zealand Engineers Union for a number of years, as well as a weekly web column "The week that was... with Don Polly." [recent stories] [send message]
  140. Don Sutherland: Don Sutherland is the National Industrial Officer at the AMWU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  141. Debbie Rasmussen: Debbie one of the two primary people who helped organize a union at Whole Foods Market in Madison, Wisconsin. She, along with one other person, have been maintaining the union's web site (http://www.wholeworkersunite.org). Although fired for my involvement in the union in November, 2002, she still maintains the web site in her free time. [recent stories] [send message]
  142. Dr. M. Kailasa Pathi: Dr Pathi is Editor of The Labour News, a registered weekly newspaper, published in Andhra Pradesh. [recent stories] [send message]
  143. Duck Swart: Duck is webmaster for FNV BOUW in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  144. Nick Durie: Nick is Central Scotland Organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). [recent stories] [send message]
  145. Dustin Teske: Dustin is based in the USA and works on the UnionGuide website. [recent stories] [send message]
  146. Eddy Stam: Eddy Stam is a national officer for FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands and is posted as a guest secretary at the European Metalworkers Federation in Brussels, Belgium. He has an (inter)national background in metal- transport- and service-industry and is a trained expert on organizing. [recent stories] [send message]
  147. Edgar Callano: Edgar is a LabourStart correspondent in the Phillipines. He does occasional web editing for apl.org.ph and ciu.ph websites. An advocate of "telephone-for-everyhome", wireless and broadband internet connectivity with special interests to remote provinces, public schools and local government units and agencies in the Philippines. He works as economic researcher, network and PC technician. [recent stories] [send message]
  148. Erinn Graham-Barter: Erinn is a Research Associate with Service Employees International Union Canada, and a member of CEP. [recent stories] [send message]
  149. Paul L. Quintos: Paul is Executive Director of the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc., in the Philippines. We are a non-governmental institution which provides services to unions and workers' organizations. The services we provide are giving trainings and seminars to workers, development of modules for trade union education, and research work for labor-related issues. [recent stories] [send message]
  150. Eldon Ray Stephens: Eldon is an AFSCME member in Oklahoma. [recent stories] [send message]
  151. Ellen David Friedman: Ellen is a retired member of the National Education Association (NEA) in the United States, is a lifetime union organizer and activist, and currently spends part of every year in China. [recent stories] [send message]
  152. Evan Matthew Daniel: Evan is a Ph.D. Student (History and Political Science) at the New School for Social Research and a processing archivst at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. [recent stories] [send message]
  153. Emil: Emil is a student and a member of the editorial collective of the New People's Weekly in Warsaw, Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  154. Eric Lee: Founding editor of LabourStart. Author of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism, published by Pluto Press in 1996. For more information visit http://www.ericlee.info. [recent stories] [send message]
  155. Eric Hustvedt: Eric is the information officer for StraightGoods.com in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  156. Erika DeCarlo: Erika is helping out with LabourStart's German language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  157. Erik Davis: Erik writes: "I am an anthropologist of contemporary Cambodian Buddhism whose work in that area deeply concerns the practices and effects of agriculture, environmental degradation, and the influential garment industry in Cambodia and Southeast Asia more generally. Stories of interest to readers of LabourStart may include stories I write to my own blog, and which I think of as 'commoning' (use of shared lands, or their destruction) and labor unionism." [recent stories] [send message]
  158. Espen L�ken: Espen L�ken is a former senior shop steward in a Norwegian oil company, now employed as a researcher at the Fafo Insitute for Applied Social Science working with projects towards trade unions. He ran the first local union web site in Norway, and started the independent web site Faglig vev (Union web) with union news and links in May 2000. Espen is editor of the Norwegian LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  159. Eugene Plawiuk: [recent stories] [send message]
  160. Evy Varsamopoulou: Evy is Senior Lecturer and Admissions Tutor, Department of European Philosophy and Literature at Anglia Polytechnic University, and editor of the Greek language edition of LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  161. Ewa Jasiewicz: Ewa is a member of the NUJ and TGWU in the UK, and the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions. She used to work as a union organiser for the TGWU - and is now working on a campaign to keep Iraqi oil in the public sector supporting Iraqi trade unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  162. Eylem Ates: Eylem is Vice President of the Turkish Civil Aviation Union (Hava-Is). [recent stories] [send message]
  163. Eyup Ozer: Eyup is a university student and a member of the Social Rights Association in Turkey, which produces a monthly report about Social Rights with a focus on Labor Rights. It collects news from every newspaper, website and trade unions on a daily basis, publishing some of the news on its website (in Turkish only). [recent stories] [send message]
  164. Faraz Khan: Faraz is a Researcher at the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, based in Washington, DC. [recent stories] [send message]
  165. Farid C. Partovi: Farid is working with the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran and is also a member of CUPE Local 4772 in Toronto, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  166. Francisco Cendejas: Francisco works with SEIU Local 615 in Providence, Rhode Island. [recent stories] [send message]
  167. Fons Vannieuwenhuyse: Fons is the campaigns and research assistant at the Brussels-based ICEM. [recent stories] [send message]
  168. Francisco d'Oliveira Raposo: Francisco is a leader of the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores do Municipio de Lisboa - Lisbon Council Workers Union and is involved in its international work. [recent stories] [send message]
  169. Fred Hyde: Active in AFSCME since 1976, was a delegate to the King County, Washington, Central Labor Council for 18 years, and a frequent delegate ot the Washington State Labor Council. I have organized labor support to defend the free speech rights of radicals, abortion rights, native american rights, affirmative action, welfare rights. I have also gotten resolutions passed to oppose the neo-nazis and white supremacists, attempts to repeal gay rights. work as an Administrative Law Judge for the State of Washington, and am a civil rights and civil liberties lawyer in my spare time. [recent stories] [send message]
  170. Lindley Bergue: [recent stories] [send message]
  171. Funmi Komolafe: Funmi Komolafe, who works for the Vanguard newspaper, is our correspondent in Nigeria. [recent stories] [send message]
  172. Galina Yurova: Galina is education officer for the IUF in Moscow, Russia. [recent stories] [send message]
  173. Brian Gardiner: Brian is Communications officer with the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU), based in Burnaby , B.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  174. Gavin MacFadyen: Gavin writes: Since I was 13 years old, I've held interest in labour and social justice movements; Former producer-director of investigative TV series World in Action and many other broadcasters. Now director, Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) based at City University, London, UK. While training journalists in investigative practice & method in South Africa, Europe, the UK, the US and South America I frequently come across labour stories and can bring them to LabourStart's readers. [recent stories] [send message]
  175. Nigel Indar Paul: Nigel is a Trustee for the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union in Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  176. Geneviève F. Kalina: Geneviève works for the BWI in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  177. Geoff Martin: Geoff Martin heads up campaigns for the Health Emergency pressure group. He also runs the Left Field stage at Glastonbury Festival, co-ordinates the Hope Not Hate anti-fascist coalition and co-owns the Miltant Entertainment record label. [recent stories] [send message]
  178. George Cheatham: George is a law student in the USA, active in a number of progressive and pro-labour organizations. [recent stories] [send message]
  179. Gisela Neunhoeffer: Gisela is the TNC coordinator for the IUF in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  180. George Lessard: George Lessard is a long time access media activist and was first constructively dismissed while trying to organize a union when he worked for a college in Montreal, Quebec back in the early '70s. He's been paying attention to his (and his fellow) worker's rights since then. Since his departure from his most recent employer he's been volunteering to help with communications for his former union, the Nunavut Employees Union by moderating an e-mail list for them.``For more information about George, visit his website``A Media Activist's Homepages. [recent stories] [send message]
  181. Gary Meadows: Gary is a member of Teamsters Local 880 in Southern Ontario, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  182. George Kofi Mude: George is Public Affairs Officer (Publications) for the Ghana Trades Union Congress and editor of TUC's quarterly newspaper, The Ghanaian Worker. [recent stories] [send message]
  183. Andrew Goodall: Andrew is co-ordinator of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  184. Bent Gravesen: Bent is a LabourStart correspondent in Denmark. [recent stories] [send message]
  185. Greg Banton: Greg is the webmaster of the United Transportation Union's national website in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  186. Greg Beiter: Greg is a shop steward for the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 587, in Seattle, Washington, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  187. Gretchen Donart: [recent stories] [send message]
  188. Mike Guilfoyle: Mike is the Greater London Publicity Officer for Napo. [recent stories] [send message]
  189. Gil Vachman: Gil is the webmaster and sysadmin for the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center. [recent stories] [send message]
  190. Adetunji Haastrup: Dr. Haastrup is a member of the Nigerian Industrial Relations Association and has been involved with the labour movement for two decades. [recent stories] [send message]
  191. Pierre Habbard: Pierre works as a policy advisor for the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). [recent stories] [send message]
  192. Edwin: Members of the Confédération des travailleurs haitiens, in Haiti. [recent stories] [send message]
  193. Hannah Casey: [recent stories] [send message]
  194. John Hanrahan: John is Nova Scotia Union of Public and Private Employees and a member of the executive board of the Canadian Confederation of Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  195. Harold Bell: Harold is a retired cable car conductor from the Bay Area in Northern California (USA). He has been active in the labor movement for most of his life. [recent stories] [send message]
  196. Harold Tor: Harold is co-ordinator of the web communications unit for the Education International, based in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  197. Harrie Lindelauff: Press officer of the biggest trade union central of the Netherlands, responsable for news-department on the FNV trade union website, responsable for publicity about FNV support activities in developing countries. [recent stories] [send message]
  198. Louise Haysom: Louise works for StreetNet, an international federation of street vendor organisations organising as a sector of informal economy workers, and is based in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  199. Hazel Ripoll: Hazel works for Public Services International at its headquarters in France. [recent stories] [send message]
  200. Helena Hamalainen: Helena works for the Finnish national trade union centre SAK. [recent stories] [send message]
  201. Helen Martin: Helen is a Unison (UK) activist concerned about the problems faced by trade unionists in Colombia. She runs a new website called OtraVoz (another voice), supported by the NUJ and the SW FBU, which shows stories from Voz, an opposition newspaper in Colombia, in English. Otravoz focuses on the trade union and human rights stories as well as the main national news. [recent stories] [send message]
  202. Herb Yambra: Herb is President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Division 194, in Texas. [recent stories] [send message]
  203. Maureen Hermitanio: Maureen is currently KMU's Public Information Officer, in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  204. Leonard Hikaumba: Leonard is president of the Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia, and president of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  205. Steve Thornton: Steve is a member of Local 1199 of the SEIU in the USA. He's on the steering committee of US Labor Against the War. [recent stories] [send message]
  206. Tom Herriman: Tom produces a weekly radio show, Shift Break on KBCS-FM in the Seattle Washington area. He also operates a website and labor news blog, http://shiftbreak.com [recent stories] [send message]
  207. Larry Hubich: President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour. [recent stories] [send message]
  208. Huey Ying Lim: Huey works for the IUF Asia Pacific region. [recent stories] [send message]
  209. Ian Allinson: Amicus NEC member from the Electrical Engineering, Electronics & IT industrial sector. Senior Amicus rep at Fujitsu in Manchester. Chair of Amicus 9827 Greater Manchester IT Branch (http://www.ourunion.org.uk) [recent stories] [send message]
  210. Ian Martin: Ian works for the Education International in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  211. Ian Raines: Ian is executive officer of the General Union in Japan. [recent stories] [send message]
  212. Ian McArdle: Ian is Head of Organising and Regulatory Affairs for the Communication Workers Union in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  213. Mehdi Kouhestaninejad: Mehdi is working for solidarity with Iranian workers and is president of a CUPE local in Toronto. [recent stories] [send message]
  214. Igor Zustand: Trade union activist and journalist at the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus and IUF national coordinator. [recent stories] [send message]
  215. Iman Rahmana: Iman is a coordinator of a labour NGO based in Bogor, Indonesia. [recent stories] [send message]
  216. Indah Budiarti: Indah is Organising and Communication Coordinator for Public Services International-Asia Pacific Regional Organisation, based in Singapore. [recent stories] [send message]
  217. Steve Ongerth: Steve is the system administrator for the website of the Industrial Workers of the World. [recent stories] [send message]
  218. Ioan Thomas: Ioan is based in Australia and has written for union websites such as the Victorian Trades Hall Council web site on OH&S issues. He works in the Education and Vocational Education and Training sector as a teacher and program coordinator. [recent stories] [send message]
  219. Andeesheh Nicko: Andeesheh Nicko is the editor of the Iranian Workers Bulletin. [recent stories] [send message]
  220. Masood Farahmand: Masood works with the Iran Labour Watch website. [recent stories] [send message]
  221. Irina de Sancho: Irina is in charge of the Equality Department in FeS-UGT (Services Federation of General Workers Union of Spain). She is also vice president of UNI Europa Youth and a formal delegate in the European Works Council of Generali Group (finance sector). [recent stories] [send message]
  222. Isabel Hay: Isabel is an Amicus rep in the IT industry in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  223. Jack Clark: Jack's current job involves 'workforce development' or in older language job and skill training for transit workers, mostly affiliated with the Amalgamated Transit Workers and the Transport Workers Union. He has a long history of interest and involvement in labor struggles and was the first National Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), now Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). [recent stories] [send message]
  224. Michael Whitney: Michael works with the Workin' It / The Jackie Guerra Show, a labour radio show in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  225. Denis Jacquot: Denis covers France and French-speaking African labour news for LabourStart. Now retired, he formerly worked for the international desk of the French national trade union center CFDT. [recent stories] [send message]
  226. Jagath Bandara: Jagath works for the National Organising Unit- AMWU(Australian Manufacturing Workers Union) in New South Wales, Australia. He mostly covers India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka news for LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  227. Jamie Doucette: Jamie tracks Korean Labour and Social movements and is a PhD student at UBC in Vancouver, Canada studying East Asian Political Economy. He has a blog on Korean Social Movements at http://www.twokoreas.blogspot.com [recent stories] [send message]
  228. Rafa³ Jankiewicz: [recent stories] [send message]
  229. Jason Wallach: Jason has been reporting on labor news from El Salvador for upsidedownworld.org and crispaz.org [recent stories] [send message]
  230. Jasper Goss: Information and Research Officer at the Asia & Pacific Regional Secretariat of the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF). [recent stories] [send message]
  231. Jawad Qasrawi: Jawad works on Hazards, the health and safety magazine. Check out its website, which won the Labour Website of the Year award a couple of years back -- http://www.hazards.org [recent stories] [send message]
  232. Jessica Emami: Jessica works for the Solidarity Center, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  233. Jeff Ballinger: Jeff Ballinger is working on a Pol-Sci PhD at McMaster University near Toronto. Starting in mid-70s, worked in garment union boycotts and organizing campaigns. Went to Asia for the AFL-CIO in 1984, returning to the U.S. in 1995. Most of his time was spent directing A.I.D.- and union-funded programs in Indonesia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Founder and Director of Press for Change, a consumer-information NGO which monitors worker rights in Asia. While at the University of Pisa in 2003, he developed an international workers' rights web-site for the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the Science of Peace. [recent stories] [send message]
  234. Jordan Barab: Jordan has been working for 18 years for US labor unions in the field of Occupational Safety and Health, and three years as Labor Liaison at OSHA in the Clinton Administration. Since March of 2003, he has been the author of Confined Space, a weblog addressing workplace safety, labor and politics. [recent stories] [send message]
  235. Jeffrey Baxter: Jeffrey is based in Cardiff (Wales) and works as a support worker with people with learning disabilities. He is a dual ``card carrier of the Industrial Workers of the World and UNISON and also runs a weekly e-mail based newsletter ``for the Cardiff area called Cardiff Alternative News which covers alternative and radical causes. [recent stories] [send message]
  236. John Cartwright: John is President of the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, in Ontario, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  237. Jessica Champagne: Jessica works as a Community & Political Officer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) focussing on international solidarity and will help cover Indonesian labour news. [recent stories] [send message]
  238. Jennifer Luff: Jennifer is a researcher at the SEIU in the United States, and is a student of labour history. [recent stories] [send message]
  239. Józef J Drozdowski: Józef is 3rd Vice President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, Federal District 1, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He is also a local president and an officer of NFFE FD1's Forest Service Council. NFFE's FS Council is comprised of about 90 locals which represent U.S. Forest Service employees from Alaska to Puerto Rico. [recent stories] [send message]
  240. Jean Cooper: Jean is a Bargaining Unit Assistant for PCS, in the United Kingdom. [recent stories] [send message]
  241. Jeremy Kerbel: Jeremy is a planning officer for the LHMU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  242. Jerise Fogel: Jeri works on LabourStart's edition in German. [recent stories] [send message]
  243. Liam Craig-Best: Liam is director of Justice for Colombia, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  244. James Godfrey: James is an organiser for the ASU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  245. Jenetta Haley: Jenetta works for Napo, the probation officers union in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  246. Jossel I. Ebesate: Jossel is a nurse supervisor at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital and currently National Executive Vice President and Manila Chapter Secretary of the All U.P. Workers Union (AUPWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  247. Jim Denham: Jim is a member of Unite-T&G section, presently working for West Midlands region NASUWT, in the United Kingdom. [recent stories] [send message]
  248. Jim Quinn: Jim is Team Leader Organising Dept, ATGWU in Northern Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  249. Jimmy Tong Yee Shen: Jimmy is deputy financial secretary for the Malaysian Trade Union Congress. He's also general secretary of an enterprise level union for workers in the largest bank in the country. [recent stories] [send message]
  250. John K. Carter: John is a member of the United Steel Workers of America. [recent stories] [send message]
  251. James Kehoe: James is Vice President of CUPE Local 1001 in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  252. John M. Briffa: John is a secretary for the UHM in Malta. [recent stories] [send message]
  253. Jim Mellor: [recent stories] [send message]
  254. Joseph Catron: Joseph Catron is an organizer for the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a citywide tenants' union in New York, and an active supporter of Domestic Workers United, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and other innovative labor organizing campaigns in the metropolitan area. [recent stories] [send message]
  255. João Silva: João works for the union SINAPSA in Portugal where he is responsible for information (including the web), union strategy and foreign relations. [recent stories] [send message]
  256. David Jobson: David was the Treasurer of the Foreign Workers Caucus of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo South as well as a branch president of a union local. He was very active in organizing migrant worker English teachers in public schools, creating the first union local at a dispatch company for Japanese public schools. [recent stories] [send message]
  257. Joseph Welsh: Joe is a delegate to the New York City Central Labor Council, a member of UA Lu638 Steamfitters, and is a co-administrator of Union Review. [recent stories] [send message]
  258. Joe Asphar: Joe is State Organiser of the AMWU in Western Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  259. Joe Carolan: Joe is an organizer for the Solidarity trade union in Auckland, New Zealand. [recent stories] [send message]
  260. Johan Boyden: Johan is an activist with the "Youth Union Movement," the Toronto and York District Labour Council Youth Committee, in Canada. He also covers youth and young worker issues for the Peoples Voice Newspaper. [recent stories] [send message]
  261. John Burgess: John is a branch secretary for UNISON, in the United Kingdom. [recent stories] [send message]
  262. John Campbell: John is a Unison branch secretary, a Regional Convenor for Unison Yorkshire and Humberside, and President of the Sheffield Trades Union Council, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  263. John Earl: John is a former researcher/organizer for the hotel workers union in Anaheim, California and is now co-owner, editor of Orange Coast Voice newspaper. He is involved in grass roots organizing for immigrant and other workers' rights. [recent stories] [send message]
  264. John Kelly: John is information officer at the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Melbourne, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  265. John Moran: John works as a media consultant for unions in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  266. John Wood: John works as Campaigns & New Media Office for the TUC in Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  267. Joseph Lapp II: Joseph is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  268. Josua Mata: Josua Mata is the Secretary General of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL), one of the national labor centers in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  269. Jotika: Jotika is Publicity & Education Officer at the FTUC in Fiji. [recent stories] [send message]
  270. Jelle Postma: CNV Publieke Zaak, in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  271. Jacqueline Rotty: [recent stories] [send message]
  272. Juan Martinez: Youth Officer for the USMR-CCOO trade union in Madrid. [recent stories] [send message]
  273. Juhani Artto: A full-time freelance journalist since 1982. He now edits five web-publications: Trade Union News from Finland (English), Baltic Sea Trade Union Network (English), Ay-uutiset maailmalta (Finnish), Maailman Sivu (Finnish) and Medialinnakkeet (Finnish). He has also published on the web the manuscript of the book Everything at stake - safeguarding the interests in a world without frontiers (Finnish and English). All the publications can be found by visiting his homepage: http://www.kaapeli.fi/artto [recent stories] [send message]
  274. Julio Cardoso: Julio works for the CGTP in Portugal. [recent stories] [send message]
  275. Jerzy Wrzesinski: [recent stories] [send message]
  276. Jason Ward: [recent stories] [send message]
  277. Cynthia Kain: Cynthia works for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, DC. [recent stories] [send message]
  278. Karen Reissmann: Karen is a senior mental health nurse who has been sacked after 25 years service for speaking out against cuts and privatisation. Her campaign is demanding her reinstatement.``Details are at this blog. [recent stories] [send message]
  279. Karen O'Connor Coulter: Karen, a member of the Teamsters in British Columbia, Canada, is a lawyer with many years experience in the immigration and refugee field. [recent stories] [send message]
  280. Maria Kurzina: Maria is a communication officer for UNI Moscow office and also for IMF Moscow office. [recent stories] [send message]
  281. Kathleen A. Shaw: Kathleen is journalist and a member of CWA-TNG Local 31041, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  282. Mehmet Eymen: Mehmet is a journalist and writer worked in Turkey, France and Belgium. Now publishing an internet periodical Katman Haber (www.katman.info). [recent stories] [send message]
  283. Katrina Ford: Katrina works as a national industrial officer in the Printing Division of the AMWU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  284. Dr Roy Wagner: Roy is a member of the Board of Kav La'Oved, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the territories, personnel company employees, and new immigrants. [recent stories] [send message]
  285. Kevin Buchanan: Kevin works for the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Glasgow. [recent stories] [send message]
  286. Kirill Buketov: IUF Representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, based in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  287. Katy Carlan: Katy works for the organisational team at the Liquor Hospitality & Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  288. Lee Chang-geun: The International Secretary of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  289. Ken Hall: Ken is a member of AFSCME in Oklahoma. [recent stories] [send message]
  290. Ken Nash: Ken Nash produces and hosts the radio program 'Building Bridges'. [recent stories] [send message]
  291. Kiley Hernandez: Kiley is a communications representative for the IAMAW in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  292. Kim Mapley: [recent stories] [send message]
  293. Kirill Buketov: Kirill works in the IUF Moscow office and is editor of the Russian language edition of LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  294. Kyle Webster: Kyle is a nurse in New Zealand. [recent stories] [send message]
  295. Roland Klaverstijn: Roland belongs to the NVJ, a union in the Netherlands, and blogs here. [recent stories] [send message]
  296. Klementina: Klementina is regional youth president of the Union of Metallworkers in Lithuania (LITMETAL). [recent stories] [send message]
  297. Katherine Livas: Katherine Livas works for the International Metalworkers Federation, a Geneva-based federation of 193 unions in 101 countries representing almost 23 million metal workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  298. Dirk Kloosterboer: Dirk works for the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation FNV where he is involved with local / municipal issues (decentralisation of social assistance and labour market policies; development of local role of the FNV). He is responsible for the website www.fnv.nl/lokaal which aims to provide activists at the local level with news and background info. As a researcher he also follows developments such as trade union revitalisation abroad. [recent stories] [send message]
  299. Anna Leah Escresa: Anna is researcher/trainer at the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc. (EILER) in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  300. Koala Yeung Shu-Hung: [recent stories] [send message]
  301. Kollo: Kollo is a LabourStart correspondent in Russia. [recent stories] [send message]
  302. Penney Kome: Penney is the the editor of Straight Goods, a weekly online news round-up from Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  303. Cole Dorsey: Cole is secretary of the Grand Rapids GMB of the IWW, in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  304. Rob Koster: One of our correspondents in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  305. Kristyne Peter: Kristyne is a communications officer at the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF), based in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  306. Krissi Jimroglou: Krissi works for the SEIU in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  307. Robert Kulaya: Robert is a labor and lobbying consultant/trainer and a writer retired from a 25 year career of local union leadership within the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 153 at JFK International Airport in New York City. [recent stories] [send message]
  308. Juhani Kulo: Juhani is an officer for IF Metall, a union that covers most industrial companies in Sweden. [recent stories] [send message]
  309. Khumbulani Ndlovu: Khumbulani is a Zimbabwean female journalist aged 26 and works for the labour newspaper in Zimbabwe - The Worker. [recent stories] [send message]
  310. Francis Lafosse: Francis works with Website voor Syndicalisten (WVS-SWS), which started in 2003. WVS is a Belgian website with lots of information from trade union sites, mainstream media sites, and alternative media sites. [recent stories] [send message]
  311. Lou Arab: Lou is a Communications Representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). [recent stories] [send message]
  312. Jean-Pierre Larche: Jean-Pierre works for the Confédération des syndicats nationaux in Quebec. [recent stories] [send message]
  313. Larry Wells: Larry is the 1st Vice President of the Oakville and District Labour Council and is a member of CAW local 707, he is also a labour and human rights activist. Larry has fought for rights of Colombian trade unionist and is presently working on a project to build a school and medical clinic in Guatemala for the Mayan people and sits as a Board of Director of Cantabal Health and Education (CHE). [recent stories] [send message]
  314. Don Sheehan: Don is president of a 600-member local of the American Postal Workers Union. He is producer/host of a cable access program called "Labor Talk". Labor Talk is a monthly, 1/2 hour program dedicated to issues facing working families, union and non-union. The show is cable cast in 50 Massachusetts cities/towns, as well as on the web. Go to www.apwuma.org and click "Labor Talk". [recent stories] [send message]
  315. Lynne Baker: [recent stories] [send message]
  316. Dhr. Poot: The LBV is the fourth largest union in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  317. Laura Carter: Laura is the Assistant to the General Secretary of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers' Federation, the Global Union Federation representing workers in the sector in 110 countries around the world. [recent stories] [send message]
  318. Leah Marrone: [recent stories] [send message]
  319. Lee Campbell: Lee worked briefly as an organizer for UE, but is currently just an ordinary worker, working to help build an informal rank and file union activist network in Seattle, called Seattle Solidarity Network. [recent stories] [send message]
  320. Richard Leitch: Richard helps cover Mexican labour news. [recent stories] [send message]
  321. Len Bush: National Representative for the National Union of Public and General Employees in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  322. Levina Sung: Levina is based in Hong Kong, China. [recent stories] [send message]
  323. Margaret Sharkey: Margaret works for the London Hazards Centre. [recent stories] [send message]
  324. Lika Shershukova: Lika works for the IUF office in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  325. Steven Brewer: Steven is on the board of the Massachusetts Society of Professors. [recent stories] [send message]
  326. Linda Gale: Linda Gale works as Senior Industrial Officer with the NTEU Victorian Division, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  327. Lisa Vives: Lisa is Director of the Global Information Network -- http://www.globalinfo.org -- which carries news from the Global South on a wide range of development issues including labor. [recent stories] [send message]
  328. Scott Littlehale: Scott is a campaign researcher for the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council. [recent stories] [send message]
  329. Deborah Littman: Deborah is a National Officer for UNISON in the UK, doing bargaining research and campaigning around living wage. She has helped UNISON to build alliances with local community organisations to combat poor pay and conditions for private contract staff. UNISON's Bargaining Zone can be found on www.unison.org.uk [recent stories] [send message]
  330. Alex Livadaros: Local union president for AFSCME. [recent stories] [send message]
  331. Lominda Afedraru: Lominda is a journalist and publicity secretary for the Uganda Media Workers Union (UMWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  332. Louie De Vera: Louie is Education Officer for the National Federation of Labor in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  333. Louis Sombes: Secrétaire Général Exécutif - Confédération des Syndicats Autonomes du Cameroun (CSAC). [recent stories] [send message]
  334. Loukas Christodoulou: Loukas is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Great Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  335. Lucy Early: Lucy is a union rep for Unite, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  336. Lynette O'Brien: Lynette is currently a full-time student and formerly an employee of the New Zealand Nurses Organization, where she served as information coordinator. [recent stories] [send message]
  337. Maciek Śmigielski: Maciek is a high school student and LabourStart correspondent based in Toruń, Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  338. Mac Urata: Mac works for the International Transport Workers Federation in London. [recent stories] [send message]
  339. Andrea Ferrari Toniolo: Andrew works for the international office of FIM CISL, in Italy. [recent stories] [send message]
  340. Mahendra Prasad Yadav: Mahendra is director for organizing at the Nepal Trade Union Congress and was formerly president of the Nepal telecom workers union. [recent stories] [send message]
  341. Mahesh Upadhyaya: Mahesh has been associated with the Indian trade union movement and left in Gujarat since his student days. He worked as a full-time volunteer on environmental and other issues including the Bhopal gas tragedy. He specialised as a trainer and does freelance work with NGOs doing capacity-building work. He set up a Solidarity Centre in Ahmedabad to give support to small membership organisations and do human rights work. The Centre is currently concentrating on working with youth on the Gujarat communal violence which took place in 2002. [recent stories] [send message]
  342. Mairin Power: Mairin is assistant international officer at UNISON, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  343. Malia Karataþ: Malia is a member of the teachers' trade union in Turkey, Eðitim-Sen. She also writes for the magazine ÝÐNE OYASI. [recent stories] [send message]